Out of all the facets of warehousing that have seen an increase in popularity over the past year or so, imports have been one of the biggest. A number of factors have contributed to the increase in imported goods being sold. Alongside the increase in online shopping overall during the pandemic, the additional spending Read the full article…

  The loading dock is one of the most important areas in a warehouse, and yet not one that gets discussed as often. You could consider the loading dock as the beginning of every process in your warehouse. Without the products coming in from your loading dock, your warehouse wouldn’t have any inventory to move Read the full article…

  A lot of attention is paid to how items are stored, tracked, and picked once they’re in the warehouse – but what about actually getting them into the warehouse in the first place? Unloading packages is never anyone’s focal point of designing a warehouse, but it’s an activity that should perhaps be given more Read the full article…

  Whether it be the current fear of the coronavirus, or simple caution about cold and flu season, illness is a frequent concern in warehouses. Even above and beyond the typical health risks you get when large numbers of people come together to get work done, warehouses actually bring with them an increased risk of Read the full article…

Receiving products is one of the trickiest but most important jobs any warehouse can do – and this goes double for 3PL vendors. If you serve as a third-party logistics vendor for an external company such as a retail company or product manufacturer, you know how crucial it is to get orders right and keep Read the full article…

  Warehouse outsourcing is all the rage these days, and if you’ve started to rent out part of your warehouse to use as third-party storage, you’re probably dealing with a lot more items than you’re used to. The receiving process as an outsourced warehouse isn’t too vastly different from receiving products shipped directly from a Read the full article…

  For all the importance of packing and shipping goods in a warehouse, few warehouses put as much work into their packing stations as they should. Packing stations get a lot of traffic, both from workers and from products being shipped out, and handling these items as quickly – and correctly – as possible can Read the full article…

It can feel like no matter what happens, there’s bound to be some mistakes along the way in item processing for any warehouse. It’s a simple fact of the business—due to human error, computer error, or both, sometimes order errors can start at the beginning of the supply chain during receiving. These errors affect every Read the full article…

While it’s true that warehouses exist to safely store product over a long period of time, the actual receiving of the product can be just as crucial to daily operations. Of course, any warehouse with regular product intake can find themselves with a lot on their plate, and after a while you might start falling Read the full article…

From ecommerce to inventory warehouses, nearly every business has dealt with maintaining shipping and receiving practices. Items comes in, items come out, and it seems like it never ends sometimes.   Of course, you probably already have a workflow in place for dealing with inventory movement, and it probably gets the job done well enough. Read the full article…